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Immortal Halfbakers

 On the internet, no one knows you are dead
 
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Because there is some level of anonymity to halfbakers, I propose that each halfbaker who has contributed to the forum specifically 'will' their password to one of their heirs. Thus, one hundred years from now, people can say "That guy may be pathetic, but he must really be living healthy."

Or, alternatively, "That 'pathetic' guy must be 80, but he has the creativity of a 25-year-old."

Still further alternatively, program a 'bot or other program to occasionally stitch other halfbaker's ideas together to simulate a creative idea. The 'bot would log-in to HalfBakery (and pass the Turing test) to pose interesting ideas. Initially, the 'primary' Halfbaker would pay an ISP or other network entity to host the program for 50+ years. Ultimately, the program/Halfbaker would amaze people well after you are dead to respond with extensive annotations such as, "you know, that is such an obvious combination of the custard-speed-bumps with the stealing-the-moon concept that you really haven't contributed anything of substance to the creative works of humanity."

—pathetic, May 02 2007

Custard Filled Speed Bumps Custard-Filled_20Speed_20Bumps
Mentioned in 24 separate Halfbaker entries [pathetic, May 02 2007]

Turing Test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
So you think I'm a machine, huh?! Come over here and prove it. [pathetic, May 02 2007]

Halfbakery Electoral College Halfbakery_20Electoral_20College
The second part of this idea mentions passing on your halfbakery id to your heirs. Reminiscent of the Dread Pirate Roberts. [DrBob, May 02 2007]

The Dread Pirate Roberts. http://en.wikipedia...read_Pirate_Roberts
[DrBob, May 02 2007]

(?) Dread Pirate Robert's shirt In case you mistook me for him.
http://www.zazzle.com/pd/product/?product_id=235289653567110286 [pathetic, May 05 2007]

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       But everyone here apart from you is already a sophisticated AI program.
—hippo, May 02 2007
   

       In my opinion this is baked by [LordHwoorangShamen], the lost halfbakery prophet. I eagerly await his second coming...   

       <echo>Where are you [LordHwoorangShamen]?! </echo></echo></echo>
—theleopard, May 02 2007
   

       [Ian] show me a sophisticated [hippo], you.
—neilp, May 02 2007
   

       >Message: Halted
>Stack Fault 444 Error reported from sub-clause pars_var("[Ian] show me a sophisticated [hippo], you.")
>>//Parser Error: Abort at 3014 20070501 13:04:03 Ending due to serious parser error.
>>>Joke Not Found 404
>>>>Rebooting in 5 Seconds...
>>>>>default_response_list initialising...
   

       You guys crack me up!
—zen_tom, May 02 2007
   

       I've been dead for ages, and nobody's noticed yet.
—goff, May 02 2007
   

       *snort*
—skinflaps, May 02 2007
   

       Ok, Ok, ok. I admit it, I'm not really [pathetic]. I'm pathetic's well trained Schnauzer. I've been training with the Geico lizard to learn how to use the keyboard... what do you think?   

       You know, with the right cologne, I'm able to fool my near-sighted aunt.
—pathetic, May 05 2007
   

       I have always wanted to teach a computer how to be me. I think I am much simpler than most people so it might work.
—MercuryNotMars, May 06 2007
   

       User [shapu] has not actually posted in the last 50 weeks. This iteration is simply a rehash of the AI from BattleChess 2.
—shapu, May 07 2007
   

       This great idea idea idea list a big bacon user for rehash of the AI from battlechess
—Voice, Oct 18 2007
   
      
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